American history told from the vantage of immigration politics It is often said that with the election of Donald Trump Nativism was raised from the dead.
All-American Nativism provides a powerful and impressively researched account of the long but often forgotten history that gave us Donald Trump..
As Daniel Denvir argues, issues as diverse as austerity economics, free trade, mass incarceration, the drug war, the contours of the post 9/11 security state, and, yes, Donald Trump and the Alt-Right movement are united by the ideology of nativism, which binds together assorted anxieties and concerns into a ruthless political project.
The profound forces of All-American Nativism have, in fact, been pushing politics so far to the right over the last forty years that, for many people, Trump began to look reasonable.
For decades, Republicans and Democrats alike have employed xenophobic ideas and policies, declaring time and again that illegal immigration is a threat to the nation\'s security, wellbeing, and future.
This story doesn\'t begin with Trump.
But although his actions may often seem unprecedented, they are not as unusual as many people believe.
Among his first acts on taking office was to block foreign nationals from seven predominantly Muslim countries from entering the United States.
After all, here was a president who organized his campaign around a rhetoric of unvarnished racism and xenophobia.
American history told from the vantage of immigration politics It is often said that with the election of Donald Trump Nativism was raised from the dead
